Deus Ex areas in real life

[Darkangel]

I found this video on youtube while watching some Deus Ex vids.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4prBVnAut90&feature=related

It's pretty weird to see that these areas from the game actually exist, I recognized a lot of places like the docks right away.

 

[Jintor]

Oh.

Oh my god.

That's effing awesome.

More shit needs to be done like this.

 

[Naudian]

I wish they had shots from the game for comparison...I didn't recognize much. I've only played through the game once though.

 

[Lobster]

The thing I loved about Deus Ex was that although it was essentialy set in the future, it was still gritty and real, thats somthing Invisible War lost for me, I wonder how the new one will go.

 

[Dog--]

So wait...

The statue of the big lady is REAL? WHAT?!

 

[Jintor]

I wish they had shots from the game for comparison...I didn't recognize much. I've only played through the game once though.

I've done Liberty Island so much the geography is permenantly engraved in my brain.

I dunno, I really like the first level.

 

[Adrik_Senturu]

Ha, yeah I recognized all a bunch of stuff first time playing the game. But I live right next to the city so thats a given.

 

[Hazar]

I recognized the docks and battery park right away though I've never been to the east coast at all.

I was just thinking of replaying this actually.

 

[morgs]

Awesome thanks for posting.

 

[Druckles]

Having been there, I recognised a lot of the features this time I played it. It's the exactly the same, though. For instance, the whole island is bigger in real life and the statue's actually not quite as open as that. I believe these an extra ledge somewhere in between.

Still great.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Cool, reconised a few bits from Deus Ex... and a few from GTA IV.

 

[Tagaziel]

The freaky thing is the story with the twin towers (or rather, lack thereof) in Deus Ex... released in 2000.

 

[Jintor]

Yeah... taken down by terrorist attack, primarily because the hardware didn't have enough space to fit a graphic of the Twin Towers in the background (reportedly)

 

[99.vikram]

^ So that atmospheric opening was a hardware limitation?

Wow.

 

[Tagaziel]

Yup. Amazing what you can do with limited hardware.

 

[Lobster]

Yeah... taken down by terrorist attack, primarily because the hardware didn't have enough space to fit a graphic of the Twin Towers in the background (reportedly)

The entire shoreline was a flat skybox texture, surely they could have just drawn in the towers.

Although since 9/11 whenever they talk about the united nations formed anti terror coalition, I always have flashbacks, I wonder if Nato's vending machines really do force lemon lime on you!

 

[Jintor]

The entire shoreline was a flat skybox texture, surely they could have just drawn in the towers.

Don't ask me, I'm just parroting the makers.

 

[ríomhaire]

I wish they had shots from the game for comparison...I didn't recognize much. I've only played through the game once though.

Agreed. I only really recognised the shack on the docks and battery park/castle clinton.

 

[comoxer]

Agreed. I only really recognised the shack on the docks and battery park/castle clinton.

Wonder if theres a guy sat in there who you can go up to and say "Iron and Copper"

 

[Asuka]

Very cool link, even tho i live real close to all that.

 

[Jintor]

Agreed. I only really recognised the shack on the docks and battery park/castle clinton.

I recognized damn near everything.

 

[Polaris]

Another interesting place in Deus Ex 2 is Black Gate in Trier, Germany.

 

[kupocake]

The liberty island in the videos isn't real. Where are the giant walls of ice?

I always assumed that 'Castle Clinton' was a humorous reference to the then President and that the assumption was that it was renamed in the game universe in his honour. Please don't hit me. I do remember previews of Deus Ex saying that some of the locations were constructed with reference to satellite images, but I thought that would extend beyond the obvious landmarks that Deus Ex depicts...

The entire shoreline was a flat skybox texture, surely they could have just drawn in the towers.

The memory problem wasn't with the towers themselves, but with the half of the city-skyline they were in. To keep texture memory usage down, they simply used the same city skyline texture twice. Obviously, they used the half of the city without the overly conspicuous WTC in twice, since it would be easier to explain that the WTC was no longer there than it would be to explain that someone saw fit to build an exact duplicate of the towers at a nicely symmetrical distance.

 

[ríomhaire]

Kupo, I love your sig.

 

[perrkele]

Kupo, I love your sig.

Me too, I absolutely love it! I took the liberty of quoting it elsewhere, gave you the credit though :thumbs:

As for the video, I did recognize quite a bit of the areas shown in it, having played the game countless times during the years. Now someone go videotape the Ocean Lab, Vandenburg and Area 51, please!

 

[Jintor]

Kupo, I love your sig.

It's friggin' hilarious.